Beckham Co. - Obit for Shirley Arteberry Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ Oklahoma Shirley Arteberry SAYRE, Okla. - Shirley Arteberry, 87, died Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1999. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today in Martin Funeral Home Chapel in Sayre with the Rev. Lynn Brack officiating. Burial will be in Sayre-Doxey Cemetery. Mrs. Arteberry was born in Hooker and moved to Grimes community with her family. She attended St. Joseph's School. After her marriage, she lived near New Liberty then moved to Sayre in the late 1940s. With her husband, Mrs. Arteberry was involved in several business ventures including a drive-in restaurant, a hobby shop and a Ford tractor dealership. She married Dave Arteberry in 1930 at Elk City. He died in 1989. She also was preceded in death by two daughters, Clyda Ellen Reynolds and Lettie Joan Fuchs. Survivors include four children, Gardner Arteberry of Leawood, Kan., Mattie Gail Thompson of Erick, Davey Sue Thomas of Pueblo West, Colo., and Frankie Diana Franklin of Elk City; 22 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Amarillo Daily News, Oct. 2, 1999